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For 16,536 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,706 out of 16536
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16536
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16536
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  1. An American Carol
    It's a gag-strewn, hit-and-miss affair that's not without its chuckles.
  2. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    The putrid showbiz comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People appears to hit DEFCON 5 in mistaking its brand of moral laxity for cutesy irreverence.
  3. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    It is a teen romantic comedy that largely fits the familiar template but is also fleshed out with atmosphere, a nice blend of broad goofiness and sophistication, and two appealing leads who bring it to life.
  4. Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert
    It has the potential to be culturally bridging in its way, and that makes looking for Muslim comedy in the Western world worthwhile.
  5. Ballast
    A quintessentially American story that unmistakably echoes European art house cinema, combining the aesthetic purity of France's Robert Bresson with the social consciousness of Belgium's Dardenne brothers. It also is a powerful, character-driven melodrama that easily holds our attention from first to last.
  6. Forever Strong
    The movie is well shot and edited, the rugby scenes are enjoyable (if likely puzzling to the uninitiated) and "Strong's" earnestness excuses at least some of its predictability.
  7. Smother
    A promising effort that doesn't cohere into anything more, Smother never fully comes to life.
  8. Miracle at St. Anna
    Pedestrian and awkward, this film is a disappointment not only in comparison with Lee's earlier epic, the underrated " Malcolm X," but also in comparison with another film with similar aims, Rachid Bouchareb's "Days of Glory."
  9. Choke
    As the story of a wallowing pig, Choke is often pretty entertaining, but when it comes to where-do-I-come-from poignancy, it can't always keep from gagging.
  10. The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
    Their film is a rarity in that Rios emerges as a vibrant, reflective woman, an individual who refuses to be defined by her transsexuality.
  11. Obscene
    As vital, incisive and entertaining as its subject.
  12. Shoot on Sight
    Shoot on Sight has good intentions but winds up a thematically simplistic, dryly plotted and perfunctorily shot melodrama, one of those movies where dialogue is there to categorize people, not parse the complexities of human beings.
  13. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
    A hugely entertaining, efficiently crafted documentary about a ruthless, if undeniably clever, American political force.
  14. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
    Rich in revealing detail and apt in its use of everyday Spokane settings, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers shows that Wang remains a master explorer of the landscape of the human heart.
  15. Appaloosa
    The two men collaborate so well, in fact, that the real love match of Appaloosa is between the two of them and no one else.
  16. Battle in Seattle
    Townsend's sincerity, his admiration for the idealism of the people behind the anti-WTO protests, is never in doubt, but combining drama with historical re-creation is frankly a challenge his filmmaking skills are not up to.
  17. The Duchess
    Even surrounded by all this quality work, Ralph Fiennes, who plays William Cavendish, the fifth duke of Devonshire, the most powerful man in England next to the king, walks off with the picture.
  18. Hounddog
    The problems that plague the movie land squarely with the writer, director and producer, Deborah Kampmeier, who has crafted a howler of a bad script, shows little affinity for working with actors and displays no visual sense behind the camera.
  19. Lakeview Terrace
    Jackson modulates Abel's internal turmoil and heated exchanges with enough shades of loneliness, steely generosity and wicked playfulness to give the actor firm control of our fascination and growing unease.
  20. Ghost Town
    Audiences who feel battered by Hollywood's usual hard-sell approach to farce may be disarmed by Koepp's soft touch and inclined to credit blandness as understatement.
  21. Igor
    One of those fever-pitched computer-generated whizbangs in which every character spits out lines like a caffeinated Catskills comic.
  22. My Best Friend's Girl
    Ultimately, its most unforgivable sin is that it's simply not funny.
  23. Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived
    Director Koji Masutani has masterfully assembled a wealth of archival footage, photos and audiotapes, some of which has been recently declassified.
  24. Burn After Reading
    Because it's a Coen brothers film before it's anything else, this is about as dark and nihilistic as comedies are allowed to get before the laughter dies bitterly on your lips.
  25. Flow: For Love of Water
    A smartly done, involving look at a number of interrelated water issues.
  26. Moving Midway
    His engaging chronicle of the physical, historical and psychological effect of the undertaking, is also an invitation for a film buff to meditate on the antebellum South's mythic power in stories and film.
  27. Towelhead
    On the upside, newcomer Summer Bishil turns in a gutsy, quietly riveting performance as Jasira.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Family That Preys
    Dude, what made you refuse to screen your film for critics before it opened Friday? I'm betting you would have received an earful of praise for your writing and directing.
  29. Righteous Kill
    Righteous Kill's script is credited to "Inside Man's" Russell Gewirtz, and you wonder how the sleek, nuanced flow of that earlier movie evaded this one.
  30. The Women
    Becomes unfocused as it stumbles over all the points it wants to make.
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